A group of about eight Montreal residents who attended a city meeting wearing small yellow badges in protest of Jewish school buses faced a wave of accusations of anti-Semitism. But their leader, Ginette Chartre, says they will not back down, the Canadian Press reported.

A growing Hasidic community in the Montreal borough of Outremont uses school buses to drop children off around the city, causing tension with neighbors who say the constant bus traffic causes congestion, noise and pollution, reported the Canadian Jewish News.

Chartre and other residents showed up at a public meeting to complain on March 5, wearing small yellow badges on their chests - a display some say evoked Nazi imagery.

Prior to the horrors of the Holocaust, the German government required Jewish people to wear six-pointed yellow badges bearing the word Jude. Propaganda leaflets were distributed to German citizens, saying Whoever bears this sign is an enemy of our people, according to the Holocaust Memorial Center.

There were many different versions of the badge, which was also required in occupied countries. Some had different spellings of Jude or no word at all - but nearly all were based around a yellow Star of David.

"I think the claim that the yellow rectangles represent school buses is disingenuous"

I don't know why they don't stand up defiantly and acknowledge it. "Hell yes it's a reference to Nazi Germany, because the Holocaust started with the same anti-Semitic bigotry we are seeing right here."

These are SCHOOL BUSES? Now, we protestors complaining about kids going to SCHOOL? On a SCHOOL BUS? I live on a corner. t least 6 times a day, a school bus goes by. 2 times a day, the bus stops on this corner—before & after school.

I don’t know that these buses are just being used to transport kids to schools. The article just notes that these Jews are using school buses to transport Jewish people to and from where the need to go. As noted above, this type of mass transportation is more eco-friendly than if each passenger were to use their own automobile or truck to get around.

I don't know why they don't stand up defiantly and acknowledge it. "Hell yes it's a reference to Nazi Germany, because the Holocaust started with the same anti-Semitic bigotry we are seeing right here."

It wasn't the Jews wearing the yellow rectangles, it was the people protesting the Jewish school buses.

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posted on 03/08/2018 10:05:01 AM PST
by IYAS9YAS
(There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)

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